How to de-radicalize my mom's youtube algorithm?

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 1426 points –

She's almost 70, spend all day watching q-anon style of videos (but in Spanish) and every day she's anguished about something new, last week was asking us to start digging a nuclear shelter because Russia was dropped a nuclear bomb over Ukraine. Before that she was begging us to install reinforced doors because the indigenous population were about to invade the cities and kill everyone with poisonous arrows. I have access to her YouTube account and I'm trying to unsubscribe and report the videos, but the reccomended videos keep feeding her more crazy shit.

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HEAVY use of "Don't Recommend Channel" is essential to make YouTube tolerable. Clobber all the garbage.

Yeah "Not interested" doesn't do a damn thing.

It's like a "don't recommend this specific video ... for a few months" button

More like "alright chief, don't care" from my experience.

BlockTube extension is also a must. It will make sure a video or channel NEVER appears again, no matter what.